La Boca, the famous barrio in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires is bold, bright & beautiful. Yellow, green, pink, blue, orange – every inch of wall space has been painted. Famous for its superbly colourful corrugated iron houses, La Bombonera football stadium (the 49,000 capacity home of the much-loved Boca Juniors) and Caminito (the best street to enjoy displays … Continue reading Argentina’s most colourful neighbourhood: La Boca
Sacred for Aborigines, Uluru (formerly called Ayers Rock), is an Australian icon. The sandstone rock is 1,141 ft high and has a circumference of 5.8 miles (9.4km). The Base Walk is the most respectful way to appreciate Uluru. The walk will take you about 3.5 hours covering an overall distance of 10.5km. Created over … Continue reading Feeling hot in: Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
The Tongariro Alpine Crossing is New Zealand’s most popular one-day tramp/trek/hike and is voted highly in the list of the world’s ‘best walks, treks and hikes’. A trek across the spectacular active volcanic area is quite strenuous and takes around 6-8 hours to complete 19.4km. You need good weather for this trek, I was lucky … Continue reading Travel New Zealand: Trekking the Tongariro Alpine Crossing
Salar de Uyuni, is the world’s largest salt flat, located at high altitude in southwest Bolivia. The area was formerly a prehistoric lake that dried up leaving behind a desert-like landscape of stunning bright-white salt. Located at 3656 metres above sea level Salar de Uyuni’s ecosystem spans 11,000 sq km. The salt landscape stretches as far … Continue reading Travel Bolivia: the Salar de Uyuni, home to salt, cacti & pink flamingoes
Dynamite, check. Coca leaves, check. These were just two of the gifts we bought at the market on route to meet miners working deep inside Potosi’s famous silver mines. My 3-month trip around South America was planned on the go so I hadn't expected to find myself buying sticks of dynamite as gifts prior to … Continue reading Down the Potosi mines in Bolivia
We carried our water bottles and backpacks in the scorching sun and embraced the challenges of trekking at altitude. Even though we'd been travelling for a couple of months in places of high altitude, trekking up to 4,200 metres was a real challenge.
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